Notes From The Mixed Up Desk
Tiktok Ban, Quiet Book Club link, Publishing, Youtube
Hello Friends,
It’s been a rough week. Can I say that on a Monday? What I mean is, it has been a rough few days.
I think I have finally reached the acceptance stage regarding the Tiktok ban. I feel like I worked really hard on my account all year and am losing a lot.
But a lot isn’t everything and if there is one thing I am good at, it’s a comeback. I’m going to need your help in building up my other platforms.
If you’re on **Instagram, **please share my Indigenous Book Bingo post and ask your followers to follow me. I am going to need a lot of this over the next month!
I’ll be giving Youtube a real go! The biggest challenge with Youtube for me is lighting and editing. We are going to try it and see what happens.
**Publishing? ** We are still looking! Stay tuned!
January Book Clubs
Voting will be available tomorrow on Fable! Come and Join Us
Reading Updates
I am currently reading Mirrored Heavens, by Rebecca Roanhorse, this is the third and final book in the Between the Earth and Sky trilogy, an Indigenous fantasy series inspired by pre-Columbian American cultures. I hope to finish this in the next couple of days. This weekend I am going out of town and hope to read at LEAST 4 more books! (Girl Gone Missing by Marcie Rendon, Exposure by Ramona Emerson and Model Home by Rivers Solomon and SURPRISE!) Is anyone else traveling over the holidays? Is this a big reading time for you or a read nothing time for you?
Quiet Time Book Club
Happening tonight at 5pm/7pm PST/CST. We meet on zoom and read for 30 min and chat for 30 min. Come make some new books friends. Link at end of post.
Upcoming Posts
Stay tuned for:
*my favorite reads of 2024
* favorite Indigenous reads of 2024
*all of the Indigenous releases coming out in 2025
Is there anything else you’d like to see me write about? If I were to arrange some author chats in 2025, who would you want to join? Let me know below!
Consider Upgrading Your Account This Holiday Season
I'm not someone who got a lot of brand opportunities, but last year I was able to do a few collaborations with publishers for Indigenous books. I was also able to earn a bit on the Tiktok shop (not in any way like people about on the FYP, today I made $8.00) I made just enough to notice it when it goes away. I know that a lot of people set New Years Resolution's and cancel all of their subscriptions and I hope that you'll consider a Boozhoo Books subscription over a Paramount Plus subscription this year (what shows are on there, anyway?) As my platform is now smaller, the work is still there. It's a bit more challenging, but I know together we are still going to achieve pretty amazing things.
The goal of this community is to uplift and promote Indigenous authors, to find and publish new Indigenous stories and to make sure there is room on the shelves in stores. I believe that is a pretty worthy cause. Just by being here, I know that you do, too. If I haven't said it a million times, I am grateful to connect with all of you and immensely thankful for your support.
Naomi Darling is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Quiet Time Reading
Time: Dec 16, 2024 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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